THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 9, 1911;
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matftr.
I of animal sought by tho sagacious In
(ho dairy business. She U tho ac.hemo
of cow oward which dairymen, in
order to make their business proflt-
rabltsfaer , . . ,.
I flUlC, IJlUOb ftlUii
Josephine 1h tho opposite of the
pauper cow. The pauper cow eats
morn reort man sne pays mr in
afft rda opportunity (or a 'wide exten
slon of the beneficial Influence of
the habit of thrift on tho school chil
dren. For several years Inquiry was
made Into Its effect on the Individual
child. Several school superintend
en U reported a decrease of 75 per
cent In cigarette smoking In their
milk and It Is a
known fact that J respective, schools. It was also noted
tm.tr Honrs - Mam tit: noma.
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Through tattered clothes small
vioea do appear;
Roboa and fui'd R"na hide all.
Date uln With mid
And the strong lance 01 Justice
hurtles break;
Arm 11 In rag, a pliLmy'a traw
doth pierce It.
S ti ikespcara.
THEIR IE.RB
A'
LL OVER POKTLAND men are
protesting against the results
of the primaries. There are
groans, complaints, bleatlngp.
and ululations, there are sighs, bods
and tears.
But, It Is observable that In scores,
if not hundreds, of instances the la
mentations come frpm persons who
did not so to the polls. They re
mained at borne and let others do
the voting. Though the Issues were
sharply drawn, though instances of
bad government In the city were
widely published, though the pilmar
' lot almost surely meant tho detormi
nation of what kind of government
i Portland Is to have for the next two
Tears, citizens remained at home
- while the element broadly known as
the North End poured Into the voting
booths and In many instances, easily
turned the scale In the long list of
, nominations.
But 51 per cent of the registered
Republican vote of the city was cast.
Approximately 25 per cent of the
- Democratic vote appears In the bal
lot boxes.
The people, of Portland will get
exactly the kind of government they
vote for. We govern through a bal
lot box. If men lnnlst on remaining
away from the polls when the ques-
tlon of how we are to be governed Is
hanging In the balance, they must
take the consequences. The squeals
of the stay-at-homes are out of place
' now.
THE NEW 8CHOOL LAW
THE CHIEF" AIM of the new
' I school law, which seeks to raise
. the standard of the country
schools, will have the support
of all good citizens. The system
under which country schools have
been supplied with teachers inevit
ably worked towards the movement
of trained and Experienced teachers
to the larger towns, with the conse
quence that school directors in coun-J
try districts had great difficulty in
filling the empty places. The experi
ence of a large proportion has been
that, in default of advertising, appli
cants have been generally of two
classes, first, of young people of both
sexes, who were to take their 'first
lessons In the difficult art, and, sec
ond, of older and t ried teachers, who
from falling health or other personal
reasons could not stand the strain of
the large classes of the town. Yet,
in many ways, to teach successfully
a country school, puts wider respon
sibility on the teacher's shoulders,
"it Is, probably, easier to gain ef
ficiency In handling well a class of
80 or 40 children of one garde.
where lessons cover a narrow range
than to deal with a class of 20 chil
dren of all ages, gathered from the
i families on surrounding farms, and
of the most diverse standing and ac
quirements. It needs not only knowl
edge but much tart to pass from
grade to grade, and keep all busy
and In order, both physically and
mentally, during school hours. Add
to this the sense of loneliness and
lack of sympathy, when the only in
spection that serves to guide as well
as to hearten up the presiding genius
of the cross roads school house is
from the very rare visit of the coun
ty superintendent. It must be ad
mitted that the younf; teacher has
'worked at great disadvantage. The
new law will remedy the chief of
these evils.
USTRALIA WAS the last but
one of the self governing col
onies of Hrltain to federalize
the state, and by means of a
constitution to start on its lndepon
dent course. Its constitution makers
had several models before them, but
the well tried constitution of the
United States was the chief source of
their inspiration.
The old problem was to create a
federal power controlling postal, tel
egraphic, military and naval affairs
as well as customs, while leaving the
states In possession of all their rights
over Industry, manufactures, police,
and state Jndlclary. As In this coun
try there should be a borderland
comprising Interstate commerce and
public utilities.
In Australia the labor element Is
In control of the federal government,
while also very strong In more than
one of the states. Questions of mo
nopolies and trusts have taken hold
of the public mind, and have Just
now been submitted to a referendum
by amendments to the constitution,
giving the federal government power
to declare any Industry a monopoly
and to nationalize It. A further
amendment would have given the
federal government jurisdiction par
allel with that of the states over
other Industries so opening the wny
to nationalizing them lso. Coal
mines and mining Industries were
prominently In question.
But the people of Australia have
defeated all the amendments by a
large majority, and so administered
a decisive check to the nationalizing
of public utilities now controlled by
the several states of the common
that the children's savings accounts
In many cases net an example to
their parents, who were stimulated
to follow on their own account In
their children's steps.
Now that postal savings banks are
to be available for small deposits an
other source will be opened from
which an aggregate of very large
amount will Increase the sum of de
posits In the new banks.
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SCIENTIFIC SAVIORS
A'
HAPLESS COLOKAIX
T
HE COLORADO legislature is in
default with Coloradans. It has
repudiated platform pledges by
adjournment without enacting
promised legislation. It also ad
journed without electing a senator,
and the state is represented In the
upper chamber at Washington hy a
single member.
The country understands why.
The body has been engaged for 123
days In a senatorial deadlock. In
the effort to elect a senator, tho Joint
assembly took more than 90 ballots.
Enough of the members could not
get together to make a choice, and
Guggenheim Is the state's sole rep
resentative In the national senate.
It was the senatorial deadlock that
defeated legislation. The passion
and feudlsm that is at play "In such
a struggle does not harmonize with
practical lawmaking. The one domi
nant purpose of the body la the sen-
MONO THB 120,000 soldiers
mobilized for the Spanish
American war In 1898 there
were In their camps at Chlca-
mauga and elsewhere 20,000 typhoid
cases and a death rate of 7 per cent
In the first eight weeks. Among the
volunteers SO per cent were infected
wllh that deadly fever
Note this contrast. Among the
IS, 000 soldiers now In camp at San
Antonio, thanks to typhoid Inocula
tion and sanitary precautions, but
one solitary case of typhoid has been
developed, and no death has ensued.
The health standard of the troops
n camp Is actually higher than In
the quarters and barracks whence
they came. x
Not only typhoid, but yellow fever,
cholera, bubonic plague, berl-beri,
and othor scourges of the tropics,
have lost much of their deadly force
through the courageous and self-exposing
work of the modern rfurgeon.
President Taft had ample Justifi
cation for the eulogy lie paid last
week to the work of nrmy nnd civil
physicians since the bad days of
189S.
When the history of this deend
comes to be written it will be foun
that a complete restatement of val
ues in events w be recorded. Th
triumphs of ponce will be dwelt on
as far outweighing In importance th
conquests of territory through the
moans of war. Lives saved will be
contrasted with lives sacrificed. The
statue of history will be created to
the conqueror of disease and death
rattier than to tho soldier.
It has been often said that the
oriental, when meeting disenso, ae
rblent nnd Imminent death, folded his
hands, with "it is written," or "kis
met'' the decree of fate to inspire
his absolute calm. The occidental
be it Teuton, or Latin was credited
with tho spirit, of revolt, prompting
to the meeting and overcoming of
disaster. The history of Japan, how
ever, for the last 4 0 years, has given
the lie to the Inevitableness of this
distinction. Modern surgery and
medicine in Japan has reache." the
standard of any occidental nation
even the most advanced. So It Is
proven that scientific knowledge can
overcome even racial features. The
wbolo civilized world Is kin.
The debt of the times to the stu
dent of advancing and exact knowl
edge in every sphere of life is each
day more fully recognized, and the
make many' more blunders of ' th
sort. The Hitchcock effort to put
the muck-raking magazines out of
business by a prohibitive postal rate
was a colossal mistake. The appoint
ment of Maxwell on a commission
with a similar end to vhw was a
blunder of equal consequence. The
sooner the' presiaoni w anes nis
hahda of the Hitchcock group, th
better It will be for bis admlnlstra
tion.
COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIBER
These are moments when Diaz and
Lorlmer must entertain for each
other a mutual feeling of sympathy
Both must regard with envy tfte
Honorable Bailey of Texas who can
resign and still bold .the Job.
It Is now said the number of Ohio
legislators to be indicted will reach
40. The demand for disinfectants Is
on the Increase.
At least, the 17,000 or 18,000 clt-
zens who stayed at home Saturday
now know mat tneir proper piace
on primary day is at the polls.
Letters From the People
JOHN MONTAG
J
A MAKVKLOrS COW
A"
LL COWS CANNOT be like that
one described in an article else
where on this page. For six
months she lias given an r.vcr-
age of 11 k gallons of milk per dav.
atorial struggle, and almost every de- scientific savior is coming into his
tall of proceeding is shaped to suit own.
the passions and prejudices of Indi
vidual participants In the senatorial
game. A measure is killed or passed
by the issue of what nay bo its bear
ing on the senatorial choice.
Colorado Is merely a new instance
of an old and known condition. The
choosing of a senator does not prop
erly belong In a legislative body. It
is . a fireTirand to ignite the flames
of legislative passion. It arouses the
forces of discord and ferment. It
breeds riot, revolution and ruin.
We saw It In Oregon for 30 years,
and "know what it means. Bitter ex
perience in the depths of factional
ism, strife and frenzy was our teach
er. It was our deliverance when we
were led out of the wilderness by our
own method of choosing senator.
We Bhould have been idiotic had we
permitted the assembly and assem
blyism to "put the knife and the
knife to the hilt" to our system, a
system that the late legislature In its
folly refused to indorse.
CHILDREN'S BANK DEPOSITS
B'
EFORE POSTAL savings banks
came into being, school savings
banks were an established in
stitution. They began in France
In and spread rapidly. They
gained publicity at the exposition In
Vienna in 187,3 and were immediate
ly thereafter taken up by the govern
ments of France and Belgium.
They spread, as fully recognized
educational factors, in nearly every
European country.
In the United States the school
savings bank was introduced In 1876,
in the public schools of Beloit, Wis
consin. In 1885 it was tried in the
OIIN MONTAG ought to be elect
ed to the council from the Sixth
ward. His opponent is H. A.
Belding, who seeks election for
another term In the body.
Even In the Republican primaries
there was a strnog protest against
Beldlng's candidacy. Of the 5o2 Re
publican votes cast, Montag, Demo
crat, received 202. Belding only re
ceived 350. So pronounced a protest
by Republicans against a Republican
Is sufficient evidence of why Belding
should be defeated.
Montag Is a first class' citizen. He
Is the type of man from which coun
cilmen can be safely made. He Is
tho exact opposite of the ear-whispering
gang that has made tho name
of councilmen. in Portland a re
proach. He Is the character of citi
zen to do his part toward giving the
people of Portland a new deal. He
will, If chosen, bear a hand in giving
the city a changed order. He ought
to be elected.
A PRESIDENTIAL BLUNDER
L
AWRENCE MAXWELL has been
She Is Missouri Chief Josephine, and schools of Long Island City, New
Belongs to the College of Agriculture
in the University of Missouri.
' She has beaten the records of all
the cows that ever came into this
v world. In six months she gave I7r
008.8 pounds of milk.
v - In six moiiths she gave 529 pounds
j of butter. It is an average of be
tween three and four pounds per
; day.' Her yield Is as much as that
of five or six average cows.
, Each month she produces more
than, twice her own weight In milk,
Averaging 93,4 pounds per day. She
produces her own weight in milk
very two weeks. The milk pro
duced by ber In six months Is equal
to more human food than is con
tained in th a carcasses of three steers
weighing 1250 pounds eachHer es-,
timated Talne is $20,000 and her
fair dropped this spring Is-.worth
; Woo, - v. y ,;
Josephine i the high mark 'an
lutter production. She is the type
York, where between 1895 and 1903
tho scholars had deposited $120,000
to their credit. In 188,9 it was more
generally taken up. By 1903 schools
savings banks had been established
in 1511 public schools, and scholars
up to that time had saved $2,109,
661. The increase was of 52 schools
In ten states in 1903.
Schools savings banks were ac
cepted as an adjunct to the public
school system by Dr. W. T. Harris,
the national commissioner of public
education, and for many years the
records of the scholars' savings have
been printed In his official reports.
Until the institution of postal sav
ings, banks .he totals of the pupils'
savings in a school were deposited
In one account In some ordinary sav
ings baik, and each scholar "was not
separately treated until, ssy $Sjrtood
to his or her. credit in the account
kept by tneHteacher. But tho de
velopment of posul savings banks
v.. -
mission named by the president
to examine Into postal rates on
second class mail matter. The rec
ord and relations of the man and the
fact of his resignation raise the ques
tion of how and why Mr. Taft fell
Into the blunder of making him an
appointee.
Maxwell was the regularly re
tained attorney of the Adams and
Southern Express companies, and
one time attorney for the American
Express company. He was the tool
and servant of the very concerns
that profit most from the misman
agement of our postal system.
His close affiliation with the cor
porations vitally interested In the
very case Maxwell was detailed as a
commissioner to pass upon, made his
selection an extraordinary, If not al
most a high-handed proceeding.
What makes the case the more re
markable is that the president had
every means of. knowing all about
Maxwell's connections and ante
cedents. Both the president and
Maxwell are residents of Cincinnati,
and there could be no lack of knowl
edge by the president of his ap
pointee's corporation connections.
The fact that Maxwell has been com
pelled under the fire of publicity and
criticism to retire from the commis
sion Is almost equivalent to a plea
of anility. - v
The,-president 'canuot afford to
r -J. - ' - v tt $ -, . -
Some Suggestions.
Portland. Or., May To tha Editor
of The Journal. Since the fates have
no willed It that Ruahllght forges to
the front for oandldacy of the Ttepub
llcan p'ty for mayoralty, ' as well as
a number of men of bla name Ilk for the
council, the rilsajuat of nil honeat du
re n who oare nothing for party tram
nirld become the more evident. While
Mr. Thomaa at the anme time obtained
a majority of votea on the nmocratlc
th'kot. It In plain when mich a vita
I'tncrKoncy exlfta that he cannot atem
tin-"tide of graft running on a partUan
tlrkot, nid eapclAllr aa our city la so
ovt rwhelmlngly Republican, even tho
nominal. He to the mlnda of moat of
ua la like the old colored woman who In
acme 'lire extremity praying for Help,
aiipllcAtcd thus:. "O Lord! Come down
ar.d help ua In thla our hour of danger.
You aee the fix we are In and the need
of hflp, so come down youraelf. Lord,
don't send your Son; dla la no time for
clillluna."
We are in the aame fix, and while
Mr. Tliomna I heliove to he a good can
didate be cannot expect to win on the
lcninerul!c ticket. What Is left for u
to do. It occur to me, la to take a
tried man for the mayoralty aa well
ae plrdRcd turn for the council, and
pjiu-e (hem in nomination with the un
derstanding that as noon oa the city
cttn be placed under a communion form
of government (it ought not to take 60 I
tlaya), that they each and all realgn.
No one la better qualified to occupy the
mayor's chair for this brief Reason than
Dr. Harry Lane. A man wno had to
flKht all the thlevee, ecoundrela, bood
l.ira and graftera, ao long aa he, Is en
titled to some reparation for his years
of rarrtflre in this fitting end; and the
council, of courao the honest onea, will
be glad to resign the paltry 125 per
month, which pay waa seemingly de
signed by the makers of the charter
to make men dishonest. Speaking of
the commission; It would only be fit
ting that Lane and Lombard ahould
head it. Then by all meana eliminate
the decayed politicians of which Port
land is full. For the other three (five la
enough) tnka men who don't want
office, such aa Daniel Kern. W. 8. Slh-
Ron and S. Benson, men of unquestioned
ability and character, and Portland
would rtae to the full altitude of the
state, whose motto is: "She fliea with
her own wing."
CHARLES P. CHURCH.
SMALIi CHANGE ?
Retrenchment would almost take cars
of itself if it were not. for intrench-
mcnt. , I.
Better irrt your old atraw lid off to
the cleaner. Likely to be a summer day
any time now. , . . .
i
Apropos of towela-aa law of truce
In Mexico, whore wouleV tho printing
office towel get off T ,
As a compromise on the shoe sched
ule. If the tariff were taken off the
squeak it might awl at aomo
Speaking of the. vacuum cleaners-
note the cleaner mart ever track, mud
up the stairs and right into the llvlnc
room t
General Madero has doubtless" noted
this peculiarity of ventral American
revolutions thal'thev always come to
an ena.
If Woodrow Wilson of New Jersev
Is elected president there will no longer
be question regarding the tenure of
farmer JajneH Wllaon of Iowa.
Kdltnr TAycis of Honolulu has said
the world's future greatest city will he
somewhere on the Paelflo coast, and
Portland doesn't care If he I too foxy
to say which is It.
Notice Is hereby riven that Mr hen-
ear stories are in a c ass witn tne sun
sequent proceedings In the excellent tale
Dv tne ceiooraiexi jur. tiarie, so iar as
thla colyum is conaorned.
Those who ridicule the recall on ac-
count of the expense of the eloctlons
will kindly discharge, a few playful
quips In the direction of Mr. Lorlmer
and his purchasing agont.
Colored men In, Oklahoma are working
np a bnck-to-Arriea movement, i.itue
has been said about that country of late.
but Africa Is about the heat ground
floor proposition that's left.
In the canal sone an electric trac
tion svstem tn projected. And enn't
yon Just see ads. In the papers calling
tU-ntlon io iois in cmieoion aauiiiiin
Colon, and acreage in canaiview.
OltEfJON SIDELlGBTVg ,
j One Marvelous Cow'
Fromtns Lot Anfelc Examiner
to
ly nine miles from the city limits of
'ur.ama?
Astoria will clean up next Saturday.! he Is I years old, .her name Is Mia-,
Wednesday is to oe neppners ciean up i soun chief Josephine. , She bee beaten
day. . ' . . . ' ' 1 th records of all the cows that were
v... i,,... v,i. . sver raised In this world. She lives in
missbin as p A of Albert, , Clatsop h stable attached to tha College of
f sourl, at , Columbia, Mo., and She- Is
J. O. Imel has been reelected as au- interesting from a doien points of view,
perlntendent of the city schoolr of As- . Th, ,,re ract that y,,, u th- e1Bln.
ur, UV . " ' , P'on cow of the world Is enough to ln
ti ju u "v.i VniMil. . tercet Americans, for we are all more
SUnflold have been Vaked. The " build. " th subject ft Cham-
In will cost 111.000. i"u"u'C' . v are au inwrniodi in
Rockefeller,' the champion millionaire.
Prnrnr Owen. nrinelDal of the also in the man who can eat the
Prairie City school, has assumed control greatest number of buckwheat cakes
of the Prairie city Miner. i or or pounds or Dnersteax. Tne cnam-
Iplon runner, baseball player, fighter,
Street superintendent Harry moner or i an nave their followers.
La a rand e. has received the additional Mora Important than all Is this cham.
orncer ana inspector.
The Farmers' union of Union, Wal
lowa, Raker and Umatilla countiea, wm
meet Tor a tnree days- pienio at wai
Iowa Lake, June t. 7 and 8.
The Spray Courier, which has been
nrinle,! In the office Of the Fossil Jour
tml since the fire at Spray, will he at
home again as soon aa It new plant
arrives.
Secretary B. F. Crawshaw of TTTa As
toria Chamber of Commerce has resigned
as secretary of the Aatorla Centennial
commission and will be succeeded in
that capacity by J. 8. F. MoClennan.
plon cow. For her championship means
feeding tho human race, reducing the
coat of living by making the earth and
the food animals of the earth mora
productive.
The farmer who has a cow that elves
ll quarts of milk a day, soma days.
and lesa or none other days, becomes
Interested when he hears of a cow that
very day for six months In succession
gives 46.7 quarts of milk.
Missouri Chief Josephine, the cham
pion, gave In six months recorded lust
17,008.8 pounds of milk. She beat the
best record of any other cow In the
world by 1463 pounds.
The amount Of hull,, nrw1nxa1 v hv
v . . ,t ... Champioif Missouri Chief Josephine In
The Bend boosters assert-that their ,,, . s.
city has unsurpassed natural advantages m'"K"l ,"."-7 iS. i.
for a townslte, having a water power " " 1 Present ' test b.
estimated at 150.000 horsepower and vln more and more butter per pound
approximately 10.000,000,000 feet of pine of milk.
timber contiguous. To reallie the kind of a cow that she
I ana now well it pays to produce such
The Home Independent Telephone cows, you must know that the averago
company, wnien recently ausoroea mo cow gives a little more than half a
Pacific In Union and Wallowa counties, pound of butter daily, if all her milk
has served notice of a change Of rstes. I a used tnr hi,nr k,.d. i...nki..
The company claims the new schedule I the champion, give's between three and
lenos iw equaiiM w,.-. rour DOunds a duv So ht when vn.i X..
i .7 r ." . ... t
, .. ... , iA.'rv "r yvu get aa mucn nutter aa
art tKVro,.mon of cllng-huge '"h you "were keeping alx ordinary
slgjiH at the most advantageous places cows.
in th. eitv. to attract the attention! Josephine welshs 1370 nnunda. Rh
of those who will pass through to the produces an average of U.4 pounds of
centennial o m nem v - miiK per day this wonderful cow pro-
summer.
SEVEN CLASSIC MYTHS
icy I la and Chary bdis.
"Valueless."
From the New York World.
The Dutch have taken possession of
one of the Philippine Islands called
PalmaS.
Washington dispatches announce that
our government "does not Intend to pro.
test, regarding the Island as valueless.'
t was stated "that aside from sentlmen
t made no difference whofie flag floated
here.
Cnn we believe our ears? What has
become of all those lofty ideals with
which wc garlanded the Philippine
What has become of that noble duty
which prevented our leaving those Is
lands to their islanders for fear they
would be wlzed by some other nation
ess benA-olent than- ourselves? What
has become of those Inspired motives
which impelled ua to rule the Filipinos
neralnKt their will for their own good
denying them the right of habeas corpus
n order to tench them the art of self
government. Inflicting the water cure to
ure them into the sweetness of civlll2a
tion? Where now s the white man's
burden?
Are we to abandon our sacred wards
on tne island or l 'aim as to the sordid
mercies of the Dutch because they ae
valueless? ' Are we to surrender these
pupils of our democracy to the influ-d
ences of a monarchy because, they are
valueless?
Has it all from the Very beginning
Deen noimng dui canir is tne wnite
man b burden nothing but the brown
man's purse?
And chide her barking wavea Into at
rntlon.
nd fell Ciiarybdls murmured soft ap-
pinuse. Simons iuuh.
The mythical story of Seylla anj
Charybdls was very generally repeated
nly a few years ago, when It was re
called by the severe earthquake In
Sicily, for the rocks now bearing thi
names of those two mythical characters,
lie Just off of the coast of that Island,
and are a great danger to the navi
gator. The story of Scylla is also closely
allied with that of tilaucus, the fisher
man. Olaucus had fallen In love with
her as ehe was one of the jaost beauti
ful of the water nymphs. But having
destroyed six of the companions of
Ulysses, and tried to wreck the ships
of Aeneas, at last she was turned into
a rock, and as such still continues to
be a terror to mariners.
Ulysses, had been warned by Circe of
the two monsters, Scylla and Charybdls,
for It was he who had turned the beau
tiful maiden into a enaky monster.
Finally, when her beauty waa destroyed,
she dwelt in a cave hHth up on the
cliff, and having six heads, she was
accustomed to thrust forth her long
necks, and in each of her mouths
duces more than twice her own weight
in miia each month, flie produces her
own weight In milk everv two weeks.
Profeesnr Ecklee declares that the
milk produced by Josephine In six
j months Is equal to "more human' f ood -than
Is contained In the carcasses of
tnree steers weighing 1250 pounds each.
Tanglefoot
By Miles
Overholt
THE FAT MAN'S DREAM.
Getting Out tbe Strength.
From May "Xilppincott.
Among, the applicants for the cook-
hip in a Richmond household was
rattier clashing yellow girl. The lady
the house was rather doubtful as to
forced to resign from the com- b";. 5Jh "laitf' '.I there;
iwi o ii vuuiiucu uiwe w iiiuii 1.11x7 uouat
umber of questions to her. Some
were fairly satisfactory; but when the
nterrogatories touched the question of
making tea, the negotiations were de-
la red off.
"How long do you boll tea?"
"Well, ma'am," said the girt, "dat's
matter of taste, ain't It?. Some folks
biles it longer,, an' some shorter.
"But you do boil It?"
"Cert'n'y, ma'am, I biles It. Pussunly,
I always thought, dat two hours was
long 'nough to bile any tea. Yo' kin
git de etren'th outer any kind of tea
in dat time.
Love Laughs.
Age Is no bar to love nor yet to
filial devotion, as witness tho flight
of a gay eloper, Joseph Johnson, of
California, and the pursuit by his four
sons. Joseph, though 82, felt equal
to one more romance in this world of
misery and fled to wed the lady of
his choice.
At once his sons, 72, S3, 68 and 55,
started to head htm off, tout he evaded
them and love triumphed. Cupid is of
eternal youth, and . none may run so
fast as to thwart him.
Live Wire Spring lbctry.
From the Chattanooga Times.
Colonel BUI Stone of Tennessee speeds
the late departure df frosty weather
and welcomes the. coming of real spring
in these verses:
The mating birds are In a twitter.
The ' laying hen has become a sitter,
The summer rlrt Is In a titter, i .
For John has swore to either wed -or
quit 'er.
The honey bee Is on the hum,
The warm wool shirt. Is on the bum. ' :
Why does the coal man look ao glum?
Winter, old man, you're going some. .-
seized one of the crew of every venel
naastrnp. within reach. Another terror
was Charybdls, a gulf nearly on tho
level with the watcf. Thrice each day
the water rushed into a frightful
chasm, and thrice was disgorged. Any
vessel coming near the whirlpool, when
the tide was rushing in, must inevitably
be engulfedTand even Neptune himself
could not save them.
As Ulysses approached, the roar, of
the waters as Charybdls engulfed them,
gave warning at a distance, but Scylla
could nowhere be discerned. But
Ulysses, while watching Charybdls,
failed to take note of Scylla, who would
dart forth her snaky head, catch six of
his men and boar them away, shrieking in other words, three male cattle, each
to his dn. It was the maddest sight about the slxe ef Josephine, would have
Ulywses had yet seen, to behold his to be killed nnd eaten every six months
friends thus sacrificed and hear their In order tosupply as much food as
cries, unable to arrora mem any as- josephinefives In her milk and but
slstance. t-r and at the end of fcfx months you
Scylla Is supposed to have been the still have Josephine, worth about 120.-
daughter of Crataels, and aside from 000 today. y
her many neans sne is supposen io rnm estimate of her value is no
had a voice like that of the yelp,of a exaggeration, for you must know that
puppy. Charytxtis, previous to nnvin mn years calf by Josephine is worth
been transformed into a roe, aweu isuoo.
under a great fig tree on a nearby
cliff. Thrice a day. It is said, he would
suck In and thrice spout out tho sea
water. After both had been trans
formed into rocks, Scylla Is supposed to
have been placed in the sea on tho
Italian side, and Charybdls on the
Sicilian side.
In Ovid, Scylla appears, as a beauti
ful maiden beloved by a seagod, Olau
cus, and there are various other ver
sions 'of her story. According to a late
legend, Charybdls waa a Voracious
woman who robbed Herculea of his cat
tle and was therefore cast into the sea
by Jupiter, where sho retained her olJ
ferocious nature. Another Scylla, con
founded by Virgil with tbe sea monster,
was a daughter of Nisus, King or Ma
gara. When Magara was oesiegca oy
Minos, 8cylla, who was In love with
him. cut off her father's purple lock, on
which his life depended. But Minos
drowned the undutiful daughter.
Charybdls Is described aa a daugh
ter of Poseidon and Oaea, and as
ferocious woman who, for her mis
deeds, was hurled by the thunderbolt
of Zeus into the sea. The well known
line, "Incidls In Scyllam cuplens vltare
Charybdlm," occurs In the Alexandrles
of Phillippe Gaultier, a poet of tho
thirteenth century which was printed
at Lyons In 1668. Translated it means,
"One falls into Scylla in seeking to
avoid Charybdls."
Tomorrow Orpheus and Eurydlce.
"Wealth Beyond the Dreams of
Avarice."
From the New York World.
In 1860 surface railways in what Is
now New York carried 60.830,000 pas
sengers: in 1910 they carried 1,489,682,
490. The yearly number of rides per
capita rose from 100 in 1870 to 160 in
1880, 280 in 1890, 248 In 1900 and 312 in
1910. "
For these striking ratios of Increase
there are many reasons, all operating
with increasing force. It grows ever
harder to walk from home to work as
the city expands; faster transit en
larges the area of activity; riding for
pleasure grows much more common;
and a nickel does not look as big as It
did when wages and the prices of com
modities were lower.
By 1916, when the first of the new
subways should be In operation, the
population of New York will b aver
aging one carfare each a; day. By 1920
the vearly average or rwtes per capital
will be nearly 400; the daily total fori
the city will he more than, 7,ouo,out
the vearly total aome 2,600,000,000
probably much more than that 4f we
then have a reany complete rapia tran
sit system, for In this matter supply
creates domand.
The number of annual rides per
capita Is probably not capable of ,such
rapid inciaso Indefinitely. Still, by
1960 New York will probably be taxing
ten billions of rides annually at a cost,
If fare conditions do not .change, of
1500,000,000 a year seven times as
much as at present..'
Dealing with such stupendous rigures,
the pompous -Johnsonian phrase, ''po
tentiality of wealth beyond the dreams
of avarice." only moderately describes
the opportunities which the control of
New York's transit oners to private ju
divlduals Or to the city Itself.
"I did
Little Willie's Excuse,
lrrom the New York. American.
A kindergarten teacher tells a good
loke on herself. She nes Deen very
strict In requiring written ejecuses from
the mothers in case of absence..
The morning of a big snow storm oniy
a fw of the babies made tneir appear
ance. The next day tney an came witn
written excuses except one nine iei.
low named Willie.
When asked for nis ne saia;
forrtft it.
t-ta veam cautioned iv ukiis " "
next day. -
Willie's mother was quite aisgusiea.
It seemed to her that Bny one with the
lightest pretensions to grajt matter
. . 1 aw hta aK-
OUgnt IO Know m icouu wi
senca. : ..
The next morning be arrived an rosy
with cold, and handed the teacher bis
excuse, It read: ' 1
Dear Miss C. Lditie wnne s legs
are 14 inches long. The snow was two
feet deep. Very truly yours, Mrs.
nik''. Manhliurv' f the. r"trlnevllle
Steam Laundry has been moved to Red
mond. - . ,
It's Any Old Day in Turkey.
From the London News.
The leaf of an ordinary calendar in
the Levant Is a good scientific puxzle;
not one person in a thousand can ex
plain the mysterious scrolls and caba
listic signs of the Turkish religious
almanac.
The everyday calendar, however, Is
not a Joke. One is confronted by five
dates and subdivisions, containing ' In
formation about tbe sunrlso and sunset
and Turkish time. First there is thfe
data according to the Turkish financial
year, then follows the date according to
the Heglra, afterward we have the date
old style, then new style, and finally
according fo the Hebrew reckoning. In
cidentally, the Armenians and.Bulgarians
are Informed In spare corners, la, their
own language, of the day and month.
With a view to simplifying calcula
tions and bringing about a uniformity
of reckoning in the matter of time, the
vice president of the senate, Ohnxl
Ahmed Mouhtar Paaha, recently Intro
duced a bill recommending the abolition
of the financial year and the adoption
of the solar reckoning, according; to the
Gregorian calendar for all purposes of
state, religion and everyday life, the
year to date from the Hegira.
The present Turkish religious year Is,
roughly, 10 days shorter than the solar
year, while the financial year, being
basotl on the Julian calendar, gains a
day every 400 years.
Unfortunately, however, the project
of Gbazl Ahmed Mouhtar Pasha failed
to obtain the support of the government
and has consequently been shelved.
Nevertheless there la a general Impres
sion that It will hot be long before these
proposals are revived with more suc
cess, Just as the introduction of Frank
time, at first rejected by the senate, has
nevertheless practically ousted the
Turkish time In all departments and
publlo Institutions.
A fat man sat In the cooling shade
And he mopped his maawlve brow:
He bad thrown away his rake and spade
And put away the plow;
For the garden truck was choked with
weeds
And his congressman had sent the Sfutda.
Now the fat roan kicked. like fat men do,
And he shamefully cussed tne heat;"
The air was torrM and black and blue,
And his grouch was near complete;
Then be went to sleep and he dreame-l
of weeds.
And of congressmen who sent out seeds.
And this was the dream;
'Twaa a regular acream:
A farmer's hired menial planted rows
and rows of men:
Ha strolled down toward tha pasture
fence and ambled back again.
And soon there came a shower and tho
men began to sprout.
And K was but a little while till they
ni o iiiuaDuiu.ij if Ll l . a-
In a trice there came the reaper with cT
mn imrvonijiiK mtu-iwnu.
Who garnered all the blooming man and
left the acres clean.
Then came the threshing outfit and the
crop was flailed and cleaned, m
And then men of every caliber were
dusted, blown and screened.
The farmer waited patiently for buyers,
and they came.
1"hey looked the harvest over, but they
all remarked the same:
"You're crop is most luxuriant If weeds
were what you sowed;
What you'va got ore mostly congress
men, not worth two bits a load."
The farmer's heart was sad and sore
until a brilliant thought
Came romping to his think machine and
it was quickly caught.
And so he sacked those congressmen
and libeled them. "Good Stuff."
And sold them to the government and no
ono called his bluff.
And then the guys at Washington
copped forty tons apiece
And sent them to the farmer folk the
lambs with riowing fleece
The fat man 'woke from his sweet re
pose,
Then arose and rubbed his eves. '
And he hurried down between the rows
And rubbered in great Surprise,
For what he saw where he'd sowed the
seeds
Was nothing but weeds, and weeds, and
weeas.
Beaverton Reporter: The demand for
farm help ln this section Is meeting
with few applications, while the wages
offered are as goodf as those made In
other portions of the state.
CkiUKood
, The Senatorial Recall.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Congress decrees that there, ahall be
no direct election -of United States
senators. But what of a direct recall
of United States senators? Is that
possible? There seems - to be ah in
clination in Illinois to test the ques
tion.,-- . , . r - :
Meetings have been neld and others
are planned, to demand In the name df
decent citizenship that Lorlmer resign
rrom "congress, it is -a new manifesta
tion of tho people's Insistence that they
be permitted to rule. It will at least
hn interesting- to observe how mn..h
influence -this kind of a campaign has
upon a man . like Lorimer. One might
think the senator bad already endured
denunciation at the hands 6f his fel
low members as scathing as any the
people of Illinois can voice and that,
had ha been .the least susceptible to
criticism , he would already have re
tired to jrlvate life. - ,
Tke people or Illinois are probably
undertaktnr an imUtssible...tnk. . Yet
the mere attempt speak weft for tlw
state. '.; i
(Cmtrlbntct to Tb Jonmtl by Wilt Matwa.
the famou Kansas poet. Ilia prose-poems aw a
regular feature of tils column la Th Daily
journal).
The 'children are swinging and dano
lng and singing and playing with mar
bles, and rolling their hoops; they're
laughing and leaping, their festival
keeping, they run past my cottage In
jubilant troops. I look and f llEten and
briny tears glisten and roll down my
whiskers and fall on my feet; the chil
dren ar playing and my thoughts are '
s trav in r to. days when I gamboled, as
rgay and as fleet - Men say I've suo-
ceeaea, mil miners mm x neeuca in
managed to capture, with fortune to
thankr. I'v'e. lands and I've houses and
horses and cowses, and motors and dia
monds and cash in the bank.: -My but
ler's Imported, my daughters are count 3
by princes and. nobles, with eyes on my
stack; but youth is departed! I'm alt-
ting, downhearted, a stitch In my aide
and a erlck inmy btfckl For fame 1 have
striven, for wealth I; have driven I
got them, and now I would give them
awav for one hour of. swlnrina- and
dancing and singing, as young- and as
blithe as the children at play? v" v i
Coprrlgb. Ula. by "A 'm jff '
eaorge aUttaaw Adas. U2jZliJllt94
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